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A "bunch of words" has been the standard for the dissemination of scientific results for decades. Worse, those results are often locked behind a paywall...

Publishing models is definitely better than only a paper, but I think you're being unnecessarily harsh in that case.

We would all prefer it if OpenAI released a proper paper about GPT4, for instance, even if they did not release the complete model alongside it.

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Being harsh is not my intent, definitely not at a personal level. OpenAI is definitely not a role model, but at best they release API that can be tested and explored and bench marked. At least, it moves the needle. In this case, there is no way to test let alone reproduce. I think people need to expect more from scientists and researchers and call them out when they fall short

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